RE: STP Timer values on the secondary bridge

Anantha:
This is indeed one of those times where your understanding of the technology
and best practices is highly important. You know and understand why this
would be implemented in a "real world" deployment. So this would be a good
question for the proctor if you are unsure. I'd trust that advice as the
authoritative word.

The way that you phrase a question like this will dictate the answer that
you get. If you asked in such a manner that shows a full understanding of
the technology and tell the proctor how and why you would do this, then you
are likely to get a usable answer.

Thanks

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:08 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: STP Timer values on the secondary bridge
Hi All,
  I was going through spanning tree protocol and here by referencing the
below paragraph read
"You can only modify the timer values from the root bridge.Modifying the
values on other bridges has no effect.However,don't forget to update any
"backup" root bridges "
My question is ,if for example in the real lab they give a task to configure
SW1 has primary root for vlan x and SW2 has secondary root for Vlan x and
then in another task,if they ask to change the forward-delay timer value to
y seconds for Vlan x,do we have to configure this on both root primary and
secondary switch.I heard many times that we don't neeed to worry about
redundancy unless specifically asked in the lab.But just want to make
sure,if they ask the above task,can we just configure the timer value on the
root primary and not on the secondary.
Kindly clarify the same.Thanks for the help
Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
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